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Ok by me.
Actions? I don't need no steenkin' hypothesis to justify actions... [Sorry, just watched the movie]
To be honest, I don't see that it makes much difference to me whether life on earth arose spontaneously, or by directed panspermia, or as a once-in-a-multiverse fluke, or by the direction of some Omega running a sim. My actions are the same in any case. It is a fascinating question, though, even if it matters so little.
You are asking why I am not justified in coming out and saying it? But I am justified. I am justified in saying flatly that life on earth came about naturally. The statement is justified by my <Censored - Taboo Word>
The point of tabooing a word isn't to replace it with a <censored> mark. The point is that it forces one to expand on what one means by the word and removes connotations that might not be shared by all people in a discussion.